Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-15
HENRY RKcKrR. AGED seventy. wa. SHOT,

HENRY BECKER, aged seventy, was shot
| and fatally wounded at Shenandoah, Pa,
| on the Sth, by Nicholas Knebels. The lat.
ter had been paying unwelcome attention
| to Becker's daughter, and was ordered out
| of the house, but refused to go, and during
a scufle Becker was shot. There is not
| much hope of Becker's recovery.
THE next International Medical Con.
gress will be held in Berlin in 1890.
JOHN THOMAS Ross. known as the black
"burker," was hanged on the 9th at Balti-
| more, Md.
THE report comes from Homburg that
Mr.. Blaine told Banker Seligman that he
| would not accept the presidency as gift.
BISHOP IRELAND says the Catholic
| church has ceased opposition to the
Knights of Labor.
SPEAKER CARLISLE says he has made no
answer to Thoebe because the latter has
presented no case.
A CALIFORNIAN named Redstone tried
| to enjoin the United States Treasurer
from buying any more United States
bonds.
JAY GOULD says he has left the street,
but if he has TO, he will go in again and
| chang somebody's hide on the fence"
THE court-martial which sat on Lienten-
ant Weber's case at Washington has adj
journed sine die, but the finding has not
been made public yet.
JERRY COLLINS, who is serving a life
sentence in the Missouri penitentiary for
wife-murder, has been recommended for
pardon by the State prison inspectors.
COLONEL THOMAS o. SULLY, aged seven.
ty, for many years chief Inspector of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, committed
suicide on the 9th by drowning.
COLONEL LAMONT has returned to Wash
ir,r rte in
State, and was at the executive mansion
on the afternoon of the 9th.
JAS. HERMEs, a German, aged fifty
eight years, shot himself in the temple on
the 9th at his home in Broom street,
Newark, N. J. He had been in New York
for two days on a spree. The physicians
say he can not live.
THE coroner who Investigated the death
from poisoning of Mrs. Mcintyre, of
Chilli, o., has entirely exonerated her hus-
band from blame, as he Also came near
dying from drinking from the same pot
of coffee. The verdict was death from
poison administered by unknown parties.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT has refused to re-.
lease Mrs. Fanny B. Roberts without bail.
She is held on a charge of receiving $4,000
of the money stolen by Teller Scott, of the
Manhattan Bank.
SPADE SUNSHINE was hanged at Table,
quah, 1. T., ON the 9th in the Nation
al prison yard. He was convicted
of the murder of Long John in the Sequoyah
district last Christmas night. He showed
no sign of fear and was nervy to the last.
A FIRE starting in the cellar of Timothy
Brothers dry goods store, on the public
square of Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th,
destroyed both buildings, each three
stories high. The stock Of goods,
valued at $120, 900 was half destroyed, and
the remainder badly damaged by fire and
water. Insured FOR $4,000.
WHILE Peter Rentz, a stonecutter, form
erly resident of st. Louis, was at work
in an excavation in Kansas City on the
9th, stone weighing several tons fell
from above on him, crushing him into
shapeless mass and killing him instantly.
THOMAS KELLY, Michael Grove and an
other man named Walters were buried
alive on the evening of the 9th, in the new
aqueduct at North Workers, N. Y. The
earth above caved in on them. They lie
under 120 feet of earth, and there is no
possible chance of their having escaped
instant death,
WHILE ascending flight of stairs in the
hotel at Hurricane, small town in Put
nam County, w. Va, on the 9th, Rev.
William Tully fell. A pistol in his pocket
was discharged, and he was fatally shot.
The bullet entered the body near his heart
and he died in few minutes. He was
thirty years of age.
THE casting of the stem of the new
United States cruiser Charleston, now be-
ing built at San Francisco, has been sue
cessfully accomplished. The steel stern
post was cast June %, but the casting of
the stem was greater feat, the latter
weighing fully 10000 pounds. 1t is said to
be the largest casting ever made on this
continent.
THE railroad shops, store-rooms and
machinery of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Milwaukee road at Yankton, OAK, were
burned at midnight of the 9th, flames
catching from an engine that was being
cleaned. Two locomotives were damag ed
to the extent of $1,000. Total loss, $50, 900;
insured.
RUSSIA informs the Powers that Prince
Ferdinand must quit as ruler of Bulgaria,
as his rulership is in violation of the Ber-
lin treaty, or else she will disregard the
entire treaty and take her own way of re-
moving the pretandar